SHELTER Scotland has joined forces with the police and Crimestoppers to raise awareness that illegal eviction is a criminal - not civil - offence and that bad landlords can face prison sentences if they are caught flouting the law.

A community councillor has hit out at local authority staff who offered Sarah Wilson a house - but gave it to someone else while she took her children on a caravan holiday. The mum, who is expecting her sixth child in December, is now facing a second festive season in a block of flats which accommodates people with drink and drug problems.

THE Scottish Government have launched an urgent investigation into conditions at the rat-infested Bellgrove Hotel in Glasgow's east end after the Record went undercover to lift the lid on the shocking scenes of depravation there.

THE desperate and homeless men forced to take up residence at The Bellgrove Hotel deserve better than the hopeless life on offer in that oppressive building where their chances of beating drink and drugs are virtually zero.